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It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Writer
Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
Animals
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Modern
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Brain
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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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It's easy to see the faults in people, I know and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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